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St Oswald

St Oswald

Guiseley

West Yorkshire

Late C11 or early C12, C13, C15, with additions and alterations, dated 1909, by Sir Charles Nicholson (Pevsner).

Architectural Features

Perpendicular 3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses has a chamfered 3-light west window with Perpendicular tracery, a clock face at the 2nd stage, dripmould to the 3rd stage and cusped 2-light louvred belfry windows above this, a machicolated embattled parapet supported by plain gargoyles, with crocketed corner pinnacles

gabled porch to 1st bay with Norman style outer doorway, protecting late Norman south doorway with 2 orders of colonnettes with decorated capitals low aisle with pitched roof and 3 cross-gables containing 2-light Norman-style windows with quatrefoils above

C13 south transept to chancel, with angle buttresses, has a large 4-light window with bar tracery and foiled circles, gable coping with carved finial, and in east wall 3 chamfered lancets.

Interior: exceptionally wide interior space with 3 arcades: former nave has late Norman 4-bay south arcade of quatrefoil piers with scalloped cushion capitals, stepped semicircular arches

in this transept a C17 pew of Calverley family of Esholt lettered "WC", and enclosed by this a medieval piscina

various wall monuments.